Just found out this morning that Hammer Films screen writer Jimmy Sangster has passed away. Sangster’s credits with Hammer Films are HUGE, including the gothic classics The Curse Of Frankenstein and Dracula and The Mummy.
RIP Mr Sangster!!
From Hammer Films:
Jimmy Sangster was born in North Wales on 2 December 1927 and started in the industry aged 16, working his way up from gopher and clapper boy, through projection assistant, before taking up a post with Exclusive Films as an assistant director following a stint in the RAF.
Between 1949 and 1954 Sangster worked consistently as an assistant director on Hammer’s adaptations of BBC Radio serials and on the Lippert co-productions. Legend has it that Sangster’s screenwriting career came about almost by accident. Asked by producer Anthony Hinds to write a script, Sangster protested that he knew nothing about screenwriting. Hinds told him he would only pay him if he liked it, and duly did.
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